Trading Capsule for Increased Cytotoxin Production: Contribution to Virulence of a Newly Emerged Clade of <italic toggle="yes">emm89</italic> <named-content content-type="genus-species">Streptococcus pyogenes</named-content>
ABSTRACT Strains of emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes have become one of the major causes of invasive infections worldwide in the last 10 years. We recently sequenced the genome of 1,125 emm89 strains and identified three major phylogenetic groups, designated clade 1, clade 2, and the epidemic clade 3. E...
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American Society for Microbiology
2015
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/fc90050479464179993c9577968831c0 |
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